Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more nor less than speed. Racing through their lines as if the second act had to go on the air at 9 o'clock, the cast smashes the two opening scenes into a paroxysmal mishmash of words. Later other devices are used to try to break the monotony and color the action; incongruous comedy, grotesque acting gestures, and banal audience participation...
That cheer is the closest thing to official appreciation the band receives. The HAA recognizes its existence, if not its worth, by providing not quite enough money for one trip each season. What the HAA does not recognize is that, along with the unquestionable additions it makes to the color of a football game, both aural and visual, the band adds hard cash to the gate receipts. Although this point cannot be proven, it also cannot be contested very violently in the face of the fact that the Princeton and Yale Athletic Associations, neither of which can back a band...
...Mark Twain; excerpts from the notebooks of Henry James; part of a new novel by John P. Marquand; articles by George Bernard Shaw, Budd Schulberg, Sumner Welles, Sir Richard Livingstone.* To show off these prizes to better advantage, the Atlantic had freshened up its format, run its first four-color cover and had its type face lifted by topnotch Typographer W. A. Dwiggins...
...year, chiefly because of heavy spending for promotion. It is continuing the spending, and "does not expect to turn the profit corner this year." Weeks knew that soaring paper and production costs might mean hard times ahead. But he hopes that the promotion splurge and the Atlantic's color (and photographs he plans to put on covers) will help it to hit 200,000 and bring in more advertising...
...this having reached a peak during discussion on the British loan. Congressional criticism of political trends in Western Europe has been especially directed at the British government, with allegations that it has not been able to get the people to make a maximum production effort, regardless of its political color...